On 2/13/25 12:17 AM, Oğuz wrote:
Changes made to built-in printf have to be adopted by GNU printf, otherwise the user will have two flavors of printf on the same system by the same name. `-v varname' is irrelevant because it's obvious an external command can't change the value of a shell variable.
There already are differences: bash has extensions and there are different
things that generate warnings. However, in this case, bash-5.3-beta and
coreutils printf both warn about an empty string argument.
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